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Anna Politkovskaya's Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches PDF

By Anna Politkovskaya

ISBN-10: 1935554409

ISBN-13: 9781935554400

A choice of ultimate dispatches by means of the famed journalist, together with the 1st translation of the paintings that could have resulted in her murder

Anna Politkovskaya received overseas reputation for her brave reporting. Is Journalism worthy loss of life For? is a long-awaited selection of her ultimate writing.

Beginning with a quick creation by way of the writer approximately her pariah prestige, the booklet comprises essays that signify the self-effacing Politkovskaya extra totally than she allowed in her different books. From deeply own statements in regards to the nature of journalism, to horrendous reviews from Chechnya, to delicate items of memoir, to, eventually, the 1st translation of the sequence of investigative reviews that Politkovskaya used to be engaged on on the time of her murder—pieces many think ended in her assassination.

Elsewhere, there are illuminating money owed of encounters with leaders together with Lionel Jospin, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and such exiled figures as Boris Berezovsky, Akhmed Zakaev,  Vladimir Bukovsky. extra sections gather Politkovskaya’s non-political writing, revealing her pleasant wit, deep humanity, and willingness to have interaction with the strange, in addition to her deep regrets concerning the destiny of Russia.

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And Nord, Lars W. (2005) “Who Leads the Tango? A Study of the Relationship between Swedish Journalists and their Political Source,” Paper presented to the Political Communication Division, International Communication Association, New York. Tsfati, Yariv (2004) “Exploring possible correlations of journalists’ perceptions of audience trust,” Journalism and Mass Communication 81(2): pp. 274–291. Tsfati, Yariv (2008) “Journalists, credibility of,” in Donsbach, Wolfgang (Ed) The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pp.

DISCUSSION It is tempting to explain the overwhelmingly high perceived credibility fi ndings as pure journalistic bias. After all, overestimating one’s sources’ credibility—especially after relying on them—avoids the cognitive dissonance of admitting reliance on less than perfectly credible sources. 000). a Other: Messages published by other media, academic sources, PR sources, information from the Web. , 1990; Stocking and Gross, 1989; Tsfati, 2008). It should be indicated, however, that sources whose versions were subsequently published, such as the ones studied here, are naturally perceived as more reliable because those considered less reliable were dismissed during the selection stage.

Random sampling of news items: Ten items per reporter were selected randomly, providing a sample large enough to allay any concern that stories could be matched to their descriptions but not so large as to tax reporters’ focus and patience. Further measures to maintain source confidentiality included asking reporters to describe how they obtained each of their sampled items, using general categories such as senior source or political sector, without revealing any specific details about them, as well as the seating arrangements, with reporter (with a pile of sampled stories) and interviewer (with a pile of coding sheets) sitting on opposite sides of a table with a screen between them.

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